A. The fingerprint clearance card fund is established consisting of fees collected from applicants or contract providers for a fingerprint clearance card. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. The department may use any appropriated monies from the fund for the expenses of the department’s crime laboratory. Any monies remaining in the fund in excess of the monies appropriated from the fund each fiscal year are continuously appropriated to the department for the costs of the fingerprinting division.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 41-1758.06

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 41-1701
  • Division: means the fingerprinting division in the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 41-1758
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

B. Monies deposited in the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

 

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